Statements and Speeches

Statements by the High Commissioner

HC Statements 2018

August 2018"This is what true leaders look like" - High Commissioner Zeid's parting message 30 August 2018 “Now look at today’s politicians. First, those who occupy so much of the news media’s attention: the Trumps, the Orbans, the Salvinis. Keen to be viewed as the virile leaders of their respective countries; eager to inflate their image by harming migrants and refugees, the most vulnerable in society. If there is courage in that, I fail to see it. Authoritarian leaders, or elected leaders inclined toward it, are bullies, deceivers, selfish cowards.”